Davids Story V2
David's story
The guinea pig kept the device.
David ordered a VIBE to test on his clients. Like any careful practitioner, he ran the test on a stand-in first: himself. Two and a half years later, the stand-in still won't give it back.
David JohanssonFormer neurofeedback practitioner. Retired hockey player. Writes product reviews the way he used to run client check-ins: measure first, believe second.
Never hand a client something you haven't run on yourself.
About two and a half years ago, David and his wife Shari ran a neurofeedback practice. Brainwaves, EEG, sensors on the scalp. If a gadget claimed to change the nervous system, their instinct was to hook it up and look.
David caught Resona Health's founder, Mark L Fox, on a webinar and reached out with an idea: put the VIBE under the EEG and measure what it's actually doing. If it holds up, use it with clients.
So he ordered one for the practice. And before a single client touched it, he did what every good practitioner does with an unknown. He tried it on a cheap copy of the client.
The cheapest copy of a client is yourself.
The practitioner's ruleThe stand-in came with a problem of its own.
David had Achilles tendonitis in his left heel. Years of it. He'd tried physical therapy, stretching, not stretching. Nothing moved it.
He also played hockey, which is a bad combination. The routine became: play a game, limp for a week, lace up for the next game, play through it, limp for another week.
Which made him, accidentally, the perfect test subject. A stubborn, well-documented, years-old problem that had already failed everything else. If the device did nothing, he'd know fast.
Test one ran about a week.
He ran the Tendonitis protocol on the heel, alternating with General Inflammation, back and forth, for roughly a week.
Then one morning: no stiffness.
He didn't believe it, so he went out to the field next to his house and ran sprints. Then he played a hockey game the next day. Then he felt fine the day after that, which had never once happened.
"I mean, it felt miraculous. It really did. I was elated."
David, on the week the limp stoppedThat was supposed to be the practice's device. It never made it to the practice.
Then the test got copied.
A result on one problem is an anecdote. The same result copied onto other problems, and other people, starts to look like something. Here's how the copies went.
- Copy 1: the allergiesIt was March, and David had severe seasonal allergies. He ran the Allergy protocol, often with General Inflammation on the same day, and found the pair moved faster than either alone. That first season: about five allergy pills total. This year: none.
- Copy 2: ShariHis wife started with the Sleep protocol, run about an hour before bed. It helped her considerably.
- Copy 3: a clientA former client came to him with questions. He started her slowly, thirty minutes at a time, because she's sensitive and he wanted to see how she responded before going further. She's loving it.
- Copy 4: the hikeDavid retired from hockey last year after a dislocated shoulder and another concussion, and moved to running and jogging, the exact pounding that used to wake the heel up. This year, on a month in Arkansas, he and Shari hiked eleven and a half miles up and down the Ozarks with the dogs. He's 62. The dogs suffered more than he did.
One copy that didn't take, from Mark L Fox's side of the conversation: Mark gave a device to a friend, Ron, who called three months later to say he hadn't breathed this well since he was twelve. Ron had used it for the first time the night before. A device nobody copies onto themselves does exactly nothing.
The cheap copy of a machine that costs thousands.
David and Shari have since sold the practice. He does training, consulting, and coaching now, and he's building a site where he writes about every product he's tested over the years. The VIBE is at the top of the list.
His review covers his own experience, how PEMF works, and why a device this small does what the clinic-sized units do. He's tried machines that cost many thousands of dollars. The one that ended the limp fits in a pocket and costs $299.
He put analytics on the site two days before we talked. That one article was already getting read.
What he copied over from neurofeedback.
People forget how bad they felt. In the practice, every ten sessions David would check a client's top ten symptoms, because someone will say "I'm not improving" in the same breath as "I only had three meltdowns last week instead of one every day."
So the habit he brought to the VIBE is simple: pick something you can measure before you start. The easiest one is sleep. Then check it, don't remember it.
- TendonitisTest one. The heel.
- General InflammationAlternated with Tendonitis; paired with Allergy in the spring.
- AllergyFive pills the first season. Zero this year.
- SleepShari's protocol. About an hour before bed, not in bed.
And one instruction from Mark L Fox that David passes along: run every protocol start to finish. The VIBE plays frequency pairs that change every one to four minutes, like chords in a song. Half a song is not a copy of the song.
The VIBE, from Resona Health
$299 $399
A pocket-sized PEMF device with 60 core protocols and 70 expansion protocols built in, including the four above. One button. No app, no subscription, nothing to figure out.
- Fits in a pocket or wears on the included lanyard, and works through clothing
- Rechargeable, about 5 hours per charge at full power
- Safe for people and pets
- Free shipping worldwide
- 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-year warranty
Be your own guinea pig. David's test ran a week. You get 30 days, and a full refund if it does nothing.
More from Resona Health.
The VIBE is where David's test started. Two more from the same company, both one-button, both wearable, both aimed at the nervous system a former neurofeedback guy tends to ask about first.
BlueVibe
$349 $499
PEMF and blue light, both pulsed at 40 Hz, in a one-button wearable for the wrist or the back of the neck. Made for focus, memory, and mental clarity. Forty hertz is a brainwave frequency, the kind of thing David used to put sensors on.
See the BlueVibe
VaguVibe
$249 $349
A pendant worn over the chest that gently supports the vagus nerve with low-level PEMF all day. No menus, no sessions, nothing to feel. If you want a number to watch, heart rate variability is the one David would tell you to track.
See the VaguVibeHe ordered a test unit. He's still running the test.
A practitioner who wouldn't hand a client anything he hadn't tried. A heel that had failed physical therapy for years. One week. Sprints in a field, a hockey game, a month in the Ozarks at 62. And a device meant for the clients that the guinea pig quietly kept.
Run the test on yourself. It's the cheapest copy you've got.
The VIBE is an FDA general wellness device. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. The experiences described are David Johansson's own, shared as a personal story. Protocol names such as Tendonitis, General Inflammation, Allergy, and Sleep are the names of settings on the device, not claims of treatment for any condition. Talk to your physician about any health concern or medication change, and consult your veterinarian before using any device on a pet.
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